Interim Chelsea boss Rafael Benitez made three changes to the team that thrashed Mexican side Monterrey 3-1 in the semi-final - replacing Oscar, John Obi Mikel and Cesar Azpilicueta with Frank Lampard, Ramires and Victor Moses.

Corinthians coach Tite changed just one player from the side that scraped to a 1-0 last-four win over Egypt's Al Ahly, bringing in Jorge Henrique for Douglas.

The match at the 68,000-capacity International Stadium in Yokohama was frenetic right from the first whistle with both sides creating several chances as play swung from end to end.

Chelsea came closest to taking the lead after eight minutes when Corinthians goalkeeper Cassio fumbled a Gary Cahill effort from a corner, before gathering the ball just short of the goal-line as Victor Moses looked to pounce.

On 25 minutes the referee waved away a penalty appeal by Corinthians when centre-forward Guerrero went down softly under a challenge by Cahill.

Emerson should have scored three minutes later after Cahill let the ball slip under his foot. But the Corinthians forward blazed his shot over the bar from the edge of the penalty box with just Petr Cech to beat.

Guerrero then had a shot blocked soon afterwards before striker Fernando Torres was similarly denied at the other end.

Lochte beats Aussie for gold

RYAN Lochte captured his fifth gold medal at the short-course world championships in Turkey by winning the 100-metre individual medley a day after he broke the world record in the event.

To started well and led by the halfway mark. He held off Lochte over the breaststroke leg, but the American accelerated in the freestyle to move ahead.

Earlier Sunday, Lochte won silver in the 200 backstroke and said he was starting to feel tired.

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``All the races I have done last week are starting to catch up,'' he said. ``But it is the last day of the tournament and there is always something left in the tank.''

Radoslaw Kawecki of Poland beat Lochte and said he had the deployed the same tactics as his rival.

``We both wanted to wait until the final 50-75 meters and start pushing really hard. I am happy I came out on top and proved that I was better prepared than Lochte,'' Kawecki said, adding it felt ``great to be better than a world record holder.''

Schwartzel wins Dunhill Championship

SOUTH Africa's Charl Schwartzel won the Alfred Dunhill Championship by 12 strokes at the 6,671-metre Leopard Creek Estate after shooting a three-under-par 69 on the final day.

Schwartzel's 10-stroke lead from the morning fell to eight when thunder and heavy rain forced a two-hour break until the afternoon at the pristine course on the southern border of the world-famous Kruger National Park.

He was on par when play resumed, but birdied the 12th, 13th and the difficult 18th to claim the title that was his to lose.

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``I had such a bad lie in the rough on the 18th and in the back of my mind, I remembered what happened to Ernie Els,'' said Schwartzel.

Els lost two strokes in the water on the 18th in 2007, handing John Bickerton the title.

Garcia wins $1.8m at Johor Open

SPAIN'S Sergio Garcia won the weather-shortened Iskandar Johor Open in Malaysia yesterday.

The French driver progressed to the final after beating fellow F1 combatants Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher in the quarter and semi-finals respectively.

"I had to fight (Sebastian) Vettel in the quarter final," said Grosjean, "and he's very quick, always at the top, and then Michael Schumacher, so basically the two Germans that beat us yesterday (in the Nations Cup).

"I was lucky to finally find a way of driving the ROC Car for the first time in two years and then the KTM X-Bow gave me a bit of an advantage so I used it.